Artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure provider Nscale has secured $1.1bn in series B funding, a week after it was announced the firm would be working with the UK government to deploy the UK’s largest graphics processing unit (GPU) cluster. The company claims it is the largest Series B funding round ever secured in the UK and…
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The UK government has set itself an ambitious target of becoming an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower, and this is a position it is seeking to secure by championing the developers of homegrown AI tools and technologies. As the government pithily stated in its January 2025 AI opportunities action plan document: “We must be an AI maker, not…
Nokia has secured a five-year extension of its long-standing agreement to supply routers and switches to Microsoft Azure datacentres worldwide. The contract will see the Finnish networking company roll out its open source SONiC-based datacentre switches to new and existing Microsoft Azure datacentres. This is in support of the public cloud giant’s push to upgrade…
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The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has announced this week that the next-generation interconnection consortium has grown to 55 members. And as the group works towards developing the initial version of their ultra-fast Ethernet standard, they have released some of the first technical details on the upcoming standard. Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims…
If you want a new smartphone, you really only have two options: iPhone or Android. These are the only two mobile operating systems in development, including the Android forks that run non-Google versions of Android. Even Microsoft made Android phones years after ditching its Windows Mobile and Windows Phone platforms. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.…
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VTT recently announced completion of Finland’s second quantum computer, which uses 20 superconducting qubits. The work, accomplished in partnership with IQM Quantum Computers, is another step on the roadmap to build a 50-qubit machine by the end of 2024. The government set out with that end goal in November 2020, when it launched a project…
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On the other hand, AI can also be a powerful tool within the hands of cyber security professionals, with many AI-powered security technologies being developed and applied in the cyber security industry to strengthen defences and safeguard against emerging threats. With the wider business using AI, studies show 35% are utilising and 42% of businesses…
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